Rock And Pop

In his 72nd year on the planet, New Orleans’ own Dr. John issues Locked Down, recorded in Nashville with the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach as producer, and a host of younger players. The pair cut tracks that evoke his earliest experiments on Atlantic Records--melding New Orleans R&B, swampy rock, and tripped-out grooves--without sounding retro.

After becoming one of the decade’s biggest newcomers with his 2010 debut, hip-hop star Drake makes a fast return with this sophomore album, released a year-and-a-half after the platinum-selling Thank Me Later.Feat : The Weeknd, Stevie Wonder, Rick Ross, Rihanna, and Andre 3000

POLARIS PROMOTION : Buy this album and receive a 7" from one of the artists on the shortlist (at random!)

Paul Draper was the frontman, main songwriter and producer of Mansun - one of the most iconic bands of the ’90s. The band’s debut album Attack of the Grey Lantern entered the UK chart at No 1. The band split in 2003 while recording their fourth LP (partially released on Kleptomania).The EP features three equally brilliant, very different brand new tracks: Feeling My Heart Run Slow - a thundering juggernaut of a revenge rock n roll song; No Ideas - a mind-expanding spy movie soundtrack condensed into just under six minutes and The Silence is Deafening - a gleaming pop song that perfectly melds together glacial synths and soaring guitar-bass-drums. The EP also features an alternate mix of Feeling My Heart Run Slow by Andy MacFarlane of Scottish band The Twilight Sad.

Paul Draper, former Mansun frontman, releases his second EP for Kscope - EP TwoFollowing his first new music in twelve years (this summer’s ’EP ONE’), Paul Draper announces the release of a second four track EP of new material.Paul Draper was the frontman, main songwriter and producer of Mansun - one of the most iconic bands of the ’90s. The band’s debut album ’Attack of the Grey Lantern’ entered the UK chart at No 1. The band split in 2003 while recording their fourth LP (partially released on 2004’s Kleptomania).The first track from ’EP Two’, "Friends Make The Worst Enemies", is a knock-out punch of a track; five minutes of relentless chasmic melody and melancholy - an immediate reminder of why Paul’s songs were rarely far from the FM dial during his former band Mansun’s supernova career, co-written and featuring The Anchoress following their collaboration successes on ’EP One’ and Catherine’s solo album ’Confessions of a Romance Novelist’. The following tracks: "Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid", is a spacious ballad recorded on guitar and piano; "Don’t You Wait, It Might Never Come" is a ramped up, surging rock’n’roll song; and the last track is a bare bones acoustic version of "Friends Make The Worst Enemies".

Former Mansun frontman Paul Draper will be doing a small tour of indie record stores to sign copies of his debut solo album "Spooky Action" which is coming out on CD / Vinyl / Limited Edition INDIES EXCLUSIVE Vinyl w/ a bonus 7" (Due out 11/8/17: Pre order here!).

He will be joining us here in Cardiff at 1pm on Saturday the 12th of August!

As the frontman and songwriter of one of the most iconic bands of the late ’90s, the creative force that brought the classic hit single "Wide Open Space" and the Number 1 album Attack Of The Grey Lantern with Mansun, Paul Draper’s talent precedes him. Mansun’s four albums launched the band in to a fervent cult following that has grown and holds an annual convention in the UK in the band’s name.

Spooky Action will be released in early August, preceding a sold-out headline UK tour, featuring the glistening syntheticsoul single "Things People Want" and warped voodoo psych grat-track "Don’t Poke The Bear". Lyrically, it’s a biting andbrutally honest record – an autobiography set to captivating and addictive melodies. Taking its cue from the two EPs and recorded in collaboration with Catherine AD (The Anchoress) and long timeMansun collaborator P Dub, the record’s eleven tracks also veer through genres, from the warped, razored rock’n’rollin "Grey House" to the glorious widescreen analogue pop of "Jealousy Is A Powerful Emotion". SpookyAction represents Draper’s strongest, most consistent set of songs to date – a lifetime’s work condensed into just over anhour of perfectly formed music.

An inspiring, exciting collaboration between ten innovative and recognized producers (including Damon Albarn), and a host of Congolese musicians – for Oxfam. The album ranges from upbeat celebratory anthems to atmospheric brooding soundscapes, a unique union of Congolese musicianship and the cutting-edge techniques of some of the most renowned producers in the world.

Dylan Carlson (Earth) : CD limited to 1000 copies Drcarlsonalbion sees Carlson experimenting further with field recordings as he re-renders traditional folk as well as contemporary songs with his unique drone sound which has ever so long been allied to the mighty Earth. Joined by Teresa Colamonaco on vocals and Jodie Cox on guitar, the trio unite to bring a restrained majesty to the reworking of shared favorites, including Last Living Rose by PJ Harvey, resulting in an immensely special Latitudes release indeed. “The Cunning Man indeed. Six covers/ arrangements and one original composition recorded during his research into faire folk and collation of field recordings in the UK File Under: Folk, Drone Rock For Fans of: Earth, PJ Harvey, Hawkwind, OM, Sunn 0))), Electric Wizard

If the pair of singles were the battlecry, this, their debut full length LP, is their mission statement, an A-Z of the most exhilarating chapters of punk rock whittled down to its leanest, meanest, no-frills essence;12 razor sharp tracks that jolt you to life even as they seize the brain with their terminally catchy melodies and jagged hooks.

Undertow is the follow up to their acclaimed self-titled debut album, released in summer 2013. Written and recorded on tour last year, and between their hometown of Castleton and Sheffield, where the band now live, Undertow was produced by Ross Orton and, for the first time, features a third member, Rob Graham, playing bass on three songs.

“Tim, do I like that dog?” A strange question, a queer query, an odd ask. The answer surely already known unless one mind knows the other. Which would appear to be the case with Cate and Tim. With Tim and Cate. Cate, born in West Wales, raised under the shadow of a woollen mill, dressed by the field and by the rain. Tim, from San Francisco, grew under and over the bridges and streets, combed by corners and by concrete. A more different musical upbringing you couldn’t dream up. One a black thread strung through the eye of American hardcore, she a shard of glass tapped through a solid wall. Loop the thread around the shard and you have pendular device for predicting the sex. Will it be a boy or a girl? They both like to drink, coffee mostly and sometimes each other. And once the drinks are drunk out it comes. The mud slicks and the plates click. Drinks is a solo project, not a collaboration. It has one mouth, one set of lungs, one mind and four legs. Drinks are the sound of hermits on holiday, having the time of each others lives.

Drinks is the new project from Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley, aka White Fence, whose album ‘Hermits On Holiday’ is preceded by a single featuring the title track ‘Hermits On Holiday’ backed with ‘Eighteen Teenage Revenge Pair’.

‘English Oceans’, the band’s 12th release, is an elegantly balanced and deeply engaged new effort that finds the group refreshed and firing on all cylinders. “It can go from this chainsaw rock ‘n’ roll to this very delicate, pretty-sounding stuff,” says singer and guitarist Mike Cooley.‘English Oceans’ was recorded over 13 days at Chase Park Transduction Studios in Athens, GA with the band’s longtime producer David Barbe.

A statement from Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood:“These are crazy times and we have made a record steeped in this moment of history that we’re all trying to live through. We’ve always considered ourselves a political band, even when that aspect seemed to be concealed by some type of narrative device i.e. dealing with issues of race by telling a story set in the time of George Wallace or class struggles by setting ‘Putting People On The Moon’ in the age of Reagan. “This time out, there are no such diversions as these songs are mostly set front and center in the current political arena with songs dealing with our racial and cultural divisions, gun violence, mass shootings and political assholery. Once again, there is a nearly even split between the songs of Cooley and myself, with both of us bringing in songs that seem to almost imply a conversation between us about our current place in time. "